Social dangerousness
Clash Royale CLAN TAG#URR8PPP Social dangerousness or Pre-criminal danger to society is a legal charge under Cuban law which allows the authorities to detain people who they think are likely to commit crimes. The charge carries a penalty of up to four years in prison.[1] The Cuban government has been accused by Amnesty International of using the charge almost exclusively against critics of the government.[2]
People that have been imprisoned under this charge include:
Raymundo Perdigon Brito sentenced to four years in prison on 5 December 2006.[3]
José Oscar Sánchez Madan, sentenced to four years in prison[4][2]
Guillermo Espinosa Rodríguez, sentenced to two years of house arrest[4]
In 2008, the punk rock singer and dissident Gorki Águila was arrested by police on a charge of social dangerousness. He was eventually ordered to pay a $30 fine for the lesser offence of public disorder, after prosecutors dropped the charge of social dangerousness.[5]
In 2007, political protester Ramón Velásquez was arrested for the charge of social dangerousness. Velásquez was participating in a march across Cuba that highlighted human rights violations and freedom for political prisoners. Velásquez was then tried in a closed hearing and sentenced to three years in prison. Velásquez was released in January 2010.[6]
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Cuban law defines dangerousness (el estado peligroso) as "the special proclivity of a person to commit crimes, demonstrated by conduct that is observed to be in manifest contradiction with the norms of socialist morality." ... If Cuba determines that someone is dangerous, the Criminal Code allows the state to impose "pre-criminal measures," including surveillance by the National Revolutionary Police and re-education for periods of one-to-four years. The state may detain the person during this time. The law also provides for "therapeutic measures," including detention in a psychiatric hospital, that are continued "until the dangerousness disappears from the subject." The open-ended nature of this punishment affords the state extraordinary authority to abuse the rights of political opponents and the developmentally disabled.
— Human Rights Watch 1999 report[7]
See also
- Human rights in Cuba
- Censorship in Cuba
- Black Spring (Cuba)
- civil commitment
References
^ "Leading Cuban musician arrested", BBC, 27 August 2008
^ ab "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-09-09. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
^ Michel, Louis (March 2008). "Human rights concerns in Cuba" (PDF). Amnesty International. Retrieved 2013-07-17.
^ ab "The Imprisoned - Committee to Protect Journalists". www.cpj.org.
^ "Cuba punk rocker spared jail term". BBC News. 30 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-30.
^ "Imprisoned for 'Dangerousness' in Cuba". Human Rights Watch. 2010-02-27. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
^ "II. CUBA'S INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS". Human Rights Watch.
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